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Josip Heit denied The Hongkong Telegraph EU trademark

Josip Heit has been denied a European trademark application for “The Hongkong Telegraph”. German lawyers Irle Moser filed an application on Heit’s behalf for The Hongkong Telegraph trademark on July 10th, 2023.


OneCoin’s Ruja Ignatova indicted in Germany

Eight years after OneCoin’s collapse, German prosecutors have filed charges against founder Ruja Ignatova.


TCPatel Review: Quantitative trading “click a button” Ponzi

TCPatel fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. TCPatel operates from two known website domains: tcpatelfunds.com (already abandoned) – privately registered on June 15th, 2025 tcpatel.vip – privately registered on September 27th, 2024 If we look at TCPatel’s support platform, we can see it runs on QiaBot: QiaBot is a Chinese chatbot [Continue reading…]


EXW’s Ben Herzog arrested on PrivaFund charges

EXW Ponzi founder Benjamin Herzog was sentenced to five years in prison in October 2024. Counting time served, Herzog only spent a few months in prison. In April 2025 Herzog was released under monitoring supervision. Under this arrangement Herzog was able to work again, and reportedly had been at a warehouse up until a few [Continue reading…]


Faraday Hosseinipour throws brother-in-law under bus

In a bid to avoid prison time, Faraday Hosseinipour has thrown her brother-in-law under the bus. As a top promoter of the Infinity2Global Ponzi scheme, Hosseinipour was convicted by a jury in September 2022. Hosseinipour was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in January 2023. In addition to being her brother-in-law, Wayne [Continue reading…]


VIM Review: Brent Payne reboots Liberty League (again)

VIM operates in the personal development MLM niche. The company operates from two known website domains: wearevim.com – registered in October 2017, private registration last updated on October 3rd, 2023 vimnow.com – registered in December 2013, private registration last updated on December 12th, 2024 Heading up VIM we have co-founders Brent Payne and Linda Baer. [Continue reading…]


LevAI Review: LaCore Enterprises’ AI-generated slop opp

LevAI fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. LevAI’s website domain (“getlev.ai”), was privately registered on July 18th, 2025. Further research reveals offsite LevAI marketing citing Blake Schroeder as CEO: Why this information is hidden from consumers is unclear. Of additional note is the footer of LevAI’s website featuring LaCore Enterprises’ corporate [Continue reading…]


3FO Review: Shavez Anwar’s AI ruse Ponzi scheme

3FO operates in the MLM cryptocurrency niche. The company operates from the domain “3fo.ai”, privately registered on June 25th, 2025. 3FO is based out of Dubai and headed up by serial fraudster Shavez Ahmed Siddiqui, aka Shavez Anwar. Anwar (right) was a central figure in Sam Lee’s collapsed HyperFund Ponzi scheme. After HyperFund collapsed, Lee and [Continue reading…]


Labriola, Nehra & Babener TelexFree CA settlements finalized

Final judgment has been handed down against three defendants in the ongoing TelexFree class-action. On August 7th Judge Gorton issued a non-descript summary judgment order. On August 27th Judge Gorton issued an order “in favor of the Estate of Jeffrey Babener, Steven Labriola, Nehra Law Office, Gerald Nerha (individually) and Gerald P. Nehra Attorney at [Continue reading…]


Lisa Boisselle ordered to cease securities fraud in AZ

On January 6th, 2021, Lisa Anne Boisselle joined a group of insurrectionists and stormed the US Capitol. A month later Boisselle began defrauding consumers through promotion of MLM crypto Ponzi schemes. Despite mounting losses for her victims, as of 2025 Boisselle is still allegedly promoting scams. Now, the Arizona Corporation Commission has ordered Boisselle to [Continue reading…]